Dave Shea on Dave Shea

Dave Shea on Dave Shea

Dave Shea is the creator of the fabulous CSS Zen Garden, the co-author (with Molly Holzschlag) of The Zen of CSS Design (New Riders, 2005) and one of twelve great speakers appearing at An Event Apart New Orleans on April 24–25.

Q: You’re a man of many talents: designer, CSS whiz, icon creator, author, speaker, conference founder, entrepreneur SAKTI111 . What do you suck at?

I suck at organization. It’s a rare year when I see the bottom of my inbox at any point. When I’m not busy, I procrastinate instead of keeping up a steady workflow. But nothing motivates me better than last minute panic. When things absolutely, positively must get done, they do. I’m able to juggle a scary number of things MAINZEUS  at once, but only at the last minute; when I have the luxury of time I waste far more of it than I ought to on YouTube or wherever.

It’s an insane way to live, but somehow it works.